Ben Shapiro

US courts found Iran responsible for indirect support for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.

Again, American blood, Iranian fingerprints.

Most of the time, when you see a major attack on US or Western interests in the region, you will find the same pattern.

Training camps, money trails, ideological indoctrination, leading back to the Ayatollahs.

After 9-11, things got worse.

President George W. Bush correctly labeled Iran part of the axis of evil, but while the United States was sending hundreds of thousands of troops into Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran saw a vacuum.

While American officials conducted counterinsurgency across the region and tasked our troops with a near-impossible mission to promote democracy, the Islamic Republic moved weapons, operatives, and cash into Shiite militias in Iraq, whose sole focus was to kill more Americans.

Iran's elite military wing, the Quds Force, led by the now deceased Qasem Soleimani, engineered a higher-end IED design designed to pierce through American armored Humvees.

Hundreds of American troops, at least 600 actually, were murdered, having their limbs blown off because of Iranian weapons.

We'll get to more on this in a moment.

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